In a strikingly populist speech in Kansas on Tuesday, President Obama posited that the United States has a choice: to be a country in which a few do well while everyone else struggles to get by, or ...

It’s natural for decision-makers grappling with a new crisis to dust off ideas tried in the last one, whether they were good ideas or bad. Here’s a bad idea, unearthed by President Trump from a decade ...

The Washington Post is reporting that congressional leaders have announced that they reached an agreement on compromise legislation to extend payroll-tax cuts and benefits for the long-term unemployed ...

A public hearing is set to take place Thursday regarding a proposed payroll tax on large companies in Washington state.

On New Year’s Day, President Obama proclaimed his “bipartisan solution” to the fiscal cliff was “a victory for middle-class families and the economy.” That V sign must have seemed premature to the ...

After a December standoff, Congress enacted a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut, which was first enacted late in 2010 and reduced the amount workers pay into Social Security from 6.2 percent ...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’s considering a payroll tax cut as one of several possible ways to stimulate the economy — a comment that comes just a day after the White House dismissed ...